Profile: Michael Everdell

Linguistics

Options Potential for UROP Funding, Potential for Academic Credit Overview Are you a native speaker of a Bantu language (especially, Kinyarwanda, isiXhosa, or isiZulu)? We’re looking for an undergraduate student to help with a language research project. Responsibilities: Write natural, well-formed sentences in the Bantu language you speak Meet regularly with the research team to […]

Michael Everdell

Dr. Everdell is interested in syntax, semantics, and the syntax-semantics interface, exploring the lexical semantic properties of words and roots that serve as the basis for morphological and syntactic processes. He focuses especially on questions of argument realization and verbal valency augmentation. He uses theoretically engaged fieldwork on the Southern Tepehuan languages (Tepiman < Uto-Aztecan) […]